IT PROFESSIONAL 4 - SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATION

This position falls under the Governor's Finance Office within the CORE.NV ERP Project Team in Carson City, Nevada. The incumbent will be placed in a lead role of Security & System Administration, with the potential to support additional roles in Access Control, Reporting & Analytics, Configuration, or Data Management & Migration. Design, develop, and maintain security procedures, system administration processes, user access controls, role-based security configurations, and other technical components to ensure the ERP implementation remains secure, compliant, and operational.

Administer and monitor user accounts, security roles, permissions, and system access while ensuring compliance with established security policies, standards, and regulatory requirements. Review all new versions and releases of ERP software (and/or externally integrated applications, as appropriate) to ensure security configurations, access controls, and system administration functions remain fully operational, compliant, and up to date.

May serve as a member of the Technical Governance Team to help ensure that changes to the ERP solution maintain a secure, stable, functional, and fully compliant environment for all agencies and users. Information Technology (IT) Professionals analyze, develop, implement, maintain, and modify computer operations, systems, networks, databases, applications, and/or information security. Incumbents may perform duties in one or more IT specialization areas depending on the needs of the agency.

Examples of Duties Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university in computer science, management information systems, or closely related field and five years of professional IT experience relevant to the duties of the position which may include systems administration, network administration, database administration, applications analysis and development, and/or information security, two years of which were at the advanced journey level or in a supervisory or project management capacity; OR Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university in computer science, management information systems, or closely related field and five years of professional IT experience which may include systems administration, network administration, database administration, applications analysis and development, and/or information security, relevant to the duties of the position, two years of which were at the journey level in information security; OR two years of relevant experience as an IT Professional III in Nevada State service; OR an equivalent combination of education and experience as described above.

Additional Position Requirements Experience with ERP implementations is required. Qualifications Conduct detailed alternative analyses and determine end-user requirements through consultation with end-users, technicians, vendors, management, and others. Maintain documentation related to the assigned IT specialization’s architecture, operations, and other records of work activities as required. Maintain current knowledge of technological trends and advancements in the IT field as well as security management practices, laws, policies, and ethics.

Participate in recommending and justifying resource allocations and expenditure decisions, tracking, and recording expenditures, preparing purchase requests, and writing technical requirements for grant proposals. Perform related duties as assigned. Under administrative direction, incumbents either: 1) perform duties described at this level and supervise at least one IT Professional III or II or Master IT Professional; or 2) perform duties described at this level within the Enterprise IT Services (EITS) Division for enterprise- level IT systems utilized by multiple departments; or 3) perform IT project management a preponderance of the time to include serving as the project leader; planning, organizing, and directing project activities; resolving design conflicts; data administration; resource allocation; contract negotiation; timeline development; critical path tracking; justifying the need for additional resources; and coordinating activities with other work units within and outside the organization as assigned; or 4) perform Information Security duties described at this level with at least 70% of the daily activities devoted solely to information security; or 5) perform technology planning and consultation duties within EITS.

Technology planning and consultation duties include providing and/or performing: initial contact with agencies to assess their needs and develop their information technology plans; technical support for the Request for Proposal (RFP) process and software and hardware evaluations; guidance and technical assistance in completing appropriate Information Technology (IT) budget request forms; recommendations for feasible and cost effective technical solutions to customer agencies and reviewing agency IT project requests; research, information, testing and training for IT related issues to ensure viable, cost effective technology implementation; and enterprise-wide planning, policy and research.

Supplemental Information This job specification lists the major knowledge, skills and abilities of the job and is not all inclusive. Incumbent(s) will be expected to have knowledge, skills and abilities from a previous level. Systems Administration: Detailed knowledge of: principles of designing test procedures; principles, practices, and procedures required to design, analyze, and maintain software; principles, tools, and techniques as applied to writing and modifying programs; systems programming languages and techniques.

Working knowledge of : capacity planning techniques; performance monitoring principles and related software products; telecommunication technology and related systems software; various systems software products and their interrelationships; vendor procedures for applying maintenance and temporary fixes. General knowledge of: supervisory principles and techniques if applicable to the assignment. Ability to: analyze and diagnose operational hardware and software problems occurring in a computer environment; anticipate and plan for future information system technologies; assign work to and coordinate and train subordinate personnel; develop and prioritize task lists and resolve problems; develop technical specifications for bid requests and analyze vendor responses; implement statewide, multi-departmental operating systems; provide high-level technical consultation and training.

Skill in: developing specialized programs for other programmers; improving the performance of complex computer systems. Information Security: Working knowledge of: current principles, theories, practices and procedures related to information security management; five of the ten information security domains; general-purpose security controls; current information security trends and technologies; strategic planning and project management at the division/work unit level; policy development and implementation; methods and techniques used to safeguard against accidental or unauthorized modification, destruction or disclosure of data to meet security needs; interagency business practices and principles.

Ability to: identify complex information security risks, vulnerabilities and problems; select the best course of mitigation actions for security issues; assess the security and/or vulnerability of information assets to assist in developing a risk assessment of multiple security domains; assess costs and present alternatives for the assigned area of responsibility; analyze data, solve problems and make appropriate decisions within five of the ten domains; design appropriate solutions to complex security problems.

Recruiter Information : Darrell Morlan; [email protected]